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Techmeme surfaced Steven Levy’s August 5 WIRED report, “4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup,” about Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals leaving Google to found Discovery Loop. The departure is notable on its own: the four helped create systems and techniques that underpin Google’s infrastructure and modern machine learning. The more consequential part is what they are building—a company organized around automating the experimental loop of research rather than producing another general-purpose chatbot.

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The Federal Reserve’s balance-sheet problem resembles a city built around a reservoir. Quantitative easing filled the financial system with liquidity; banks, markets and regulations then adapted to that abundance. Kevin Warsh, the Fed’s new chairman, would like to lower the waterline. The difficulty is that draining it too quickly could damage the system that grew up around it.

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Two Deaths Linked to Cyclosporiasis in Michigan (r/news)

• Money-Lifeguard5815: I miss eating lettuce and other fresh produce 😭
• Valturia: Remember, FDA said everything is fine. Dying to lettuce is the new norm.
• aakundun: Deregulation at work. Profits over people.

Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks (r/worldnews)

• MyNameisClaypool: Why is the market still reacting to what he says? Everyone knows it is BS, but the market reacts as if it is not, makes no sense.
• KamKorn: He already got his market manipulation….. it doesn’t matter what you say Iran
• WearmyMark: Why people are surprised when Trump lies is a mystery to me. He did so regularly during the pandemic to try and keep everyone (and the markets) calm. He thinks the ends justify the means. He doesn’t understand or care that he is harming his own reputation as well as the nations. He doesn’t care if he makes himself a laughing stock. Whenever he opens his mouth he lies. It is at the core of his character.

What hobby or job has a divorce/breakup rate that feels like it’s close to 100%? (r/AskReddit)

• 0x14f: Not so much a job, but medical students don’t stay in relationships
• the__mom_friend: Stage Technicians, especially roadies who follows shows on tour. I realized during the last few weeks of my senior internship that every single stage tech employee was either a.) A divorced chain smoker or b.) Married to a person who worked the same shows they did.
• Slow-Rutabaga-7241: When bodybuilders use steroids, there’s one called Trenbolone, or ‘Tren’ for short. It’s also called divorce in a bottle because of the side effects of mood instability, irritability, hypermania, and apathy.

Coffee addicts, \$1,000 a week (tax free) for the rest of your life, but you have to sacrifice your daily fix. What are you doing? (r/AskReddit)

• movealongnowpeople: Is caffeine the fix, or is coffee the fix? I’d have no problem abandoning coffee. Caffeine in general, I’ll still take the money but I might be a giant prick for a few days.
• Nouvi_: As much as I love my freshly made coffee every single morning, for \$1000 a week, I would drop it with no hesitation.
• sofa_king_we_todded: I enjoy my morning latte ritual - I’d probably pick up some other morning ritual like rolling around in fresh wads of cash

What was it like when Obama was elected President? (r/AskReddit)

• WinterFilmAwards: Times Square became an enormous party. People were singing and dancing and hugging each other. Older black people were just openly weeping and couldn’t believe it happened in their lifetime. So much joy and hope for a better future
• benlau: We literally partied in the streets and hugged strangers.
• valkrycp: Kind of a collective sigh of relief for the majority of the country especially the youth and the minorities. It genuinely FELT hopeful - like the future is going to be better rather than worse.

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Google to Microsoft AI. 700k to 2.2M TC 🔥 (Blind)

• pvhk13 (Microsoft): Really, how come peanut factory paying so much? What’s their role?
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Only to work 70-80 hours a week in MAI with terrible wlb
• Avf31sd (Microsoft): As someone who has been in both Google and Microsoft, and is in AI space, MAI is a shithole, infrastracture is shit, bureaucracy is high and nothing can be done. Google is a spaceship for Microsoft. Move from Google to MAI is like when Ronaldo goes from Real Madrid to Saudi Arabia for the money, but it’s career ender unless if you know how to play politics. I’m personally not in MAI, but feel bad for folks there, some of them are paid 300k and work more than those being paid 2M - cause Microsoft. Also one of the reasons why I’m happy in CoreAI and don’t want to move to MAI, like why would I why you will overwork me and bring someone from outside who will work less than I do for 5x TC.

Claude code is making all of us dumb (Blind)

• tmo_r (T-Mobile): Lot of old engineers would have felt dumb when they were importing packages from open sources projects to simplify their work. But they adapt and build more apps. If you are not doing the same now with AI, you will feel dumb.
• dkjdfd (Snowflake): I let it write trivial code for me but not design or core functionality. I’m as smart as I was before.
• ESxR80 (Capital One): I think I’m doing more complex work and forcing myself to understand what’s being done which is good, but I’m sure my writing skills r getting rusty

The Era of High TC in Tech is Over? (Blind)

• cliff 🥜 (Meta): Researchers aren’t good at predictions. It may be true but the guy telling radiologist will be without jobs 10 years ago predicted the opposite of what transpired
• CEOInCA: It’s been out of control for over a decade. Other groups deserve to earn more at this point if anything.
• DigiArbitr (HP): “Computer Science” isn’t an industry. It’s a college major. “Software” is an industry. Is that what he means?

Sam Altman says a ‘cool use case’ for ChatGPT is a daily AI podcast about your kids. The replies were brutal (r/technology)

• null-interlinked: He is so out of touch, and it tells a lot about what a shit parent he is himself. If these are truly his views on how you should connect with your loved ones.
• UnsureAssurance: Yeah I’m betting Sam Altman has like 10 nannies for his kids and does everything he can to keep AI away from his children. So funny seeing these tech CEOs tout how child safe their products are, but in reality they keep them away
• SunWukong18: He is a diversion for the wholesale extraction and plunder planned by his type and their investors. Never forget.

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. (r/technology)

• HikeCarolinas: I sent my wife a photo of a blueberry bush I planted for her. 15min later I got on TikTok and a “blueberry bush” greenhouse advertisement. With blueberry bush literally in quotation marks . There is zero privacy in snapchat
• MJ-Franklin: Why is everything turning up the batshit dial to 11? There is absolutely no reason for things to be this insane.
• para_blox: Side note, I didn’t even know real gun emojis exist. I thought only the squirt gun did. Just another layer of stupid to this story, I guess. Like the surveillance state is baiting people with emoji content.

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The Brain’s First Sorting Question

People can usually tell speech from music almost instantly, even when the language or musical style is unfamiliar. That effortless judgment hides a difficult problem. Both signals are complex mixtures of pitch, rhythm, timbre and changing loudness, yet the auditory system must decide quickly whether to direct them toward neural machinery specialized for language or for music.

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Techmeme surfaced Bill Toulas’s August 4 BleepingComputer report, “Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages,” about a self-propagating worm moving through widely used JavaScript packages. The incident’s scale is serious, but its mechanics are the more durable story: ChainDrop turned legitimate release pipelines, trusted package metadata, developer tools, and even routine credential rotation into parts of the attack.

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Social media has changed who can give financial advice, but not the forces that shape it. Today’s “finfluencers” can reach millions without a television programme, a radio show or a wealthy clientele. Their best guidance is familiar: build an emergency fund, avoid scams, control expensive debt and invest for the long term. Yet once they move beyond those basics, their advice often reflects the characteristic financial habits of their own countries - sometimes correcting those habits and sometimes reinforcing them.

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RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: The smart and responsible people were already doing that
• Harry_Mud: So now RFK Jr changes his mind and tell parents to do what they should have already done. How nice of him… What a dumb ass……………….
• Brease: It’s easy to be anti vaccine when herd immunity is doing its job. These fucking ghouls are seeing the consequences of their bullshit.

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death (r/news)

• supercyberlurker: I forget what that’s called, where they drop a person off miles from anywhere with insufficient clothes in the freezing cold. It’s purposeful and has a name.
• CedarWolf: This sounds like ‘starlight tours’ are back. History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
• GeorgeStark1: They knew she was suffering from mental illnesses. They should never have left her alone.

For women who NEVER wear makeup, what lead you to that choice? (r/AskReddit)

• jmills23: Laziness, prioritizing sleep over it, the cost, I never had the patience to learn how to do it well, I didn’t see the point in doing make up to make my face look natural, and it made my face and eyes feel gross.
• FluffyProgram9566: Didn’t want to self-enable body dysmorphia. Makeup is a slippery slope when your mind starts telling you you’re ugly without it.
• ApprehensiveMix7312: Sensory issues, I don’t like it on my face it makes me want to peel my face off when it’s on

Former homeless people, what were some of the places you slept at night that were safe? (r/AskReddit)

• ineverbot: Weirdly the best one was this little grassy spot surrounded by bushes on one of those medians in the middle of several busy lanes of a downtown street. It was like a little parkette with a statue or something and because it was in the middle of a busy street no one ever went there to sit or sleep because it was loud af during the day
• pestyfinesty: A man I knew who volunteered at a homeless shelter told me once that a man staying there said the hardest part of it was that there’s nowhere you’re supposed to be—anywhere you are, you can be made to leave. That really stuck with me.
• AfraidComposer7682: Senior year in college I chose to live in my pickup truck with a cover on the box, so I could afford books. I went to school in the Midwest. No heat. I had a sleeping bag and some thick blankets. The coldest nights were below zero Fahrenheit. Graduated and often think of the sacrifices I made to get a college education. Glad I did it, and would not recommend it. Winter was brutal.

How do you feel about Trump selling early access to his social media posts for \$100K per month? (r/AskReddit)

• xXx420BlazeRodSaboxX: Why the fuck is the President of the United States selling ANYTHING!?
• Evil_gEek: Insider trading openly.
• Odd-Elderberry-6137: Grifters gonna grift and so long as Congress acts like his lapdog, nothings going to change.

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Failed Google L7 loop (Blind)

• MyWN48 (Walmart): 12 Month cool off is insane!!
• DAqH86 (Apple): In order to clear Google’s L7/L8 interviews, the most critical thing is to pick the right hiring manager, they will hand pick the panel interviewers, e.g. SRE requirements for Spanner and BigQuery are quite different.
• kidandplay (Walmart): Looks like that one round definitely could have been better.

Leetcode Interview is Dead And That Sucks For Me (Blind)

• rRawRr (Retool): Congrats, you were doing the AI’s job of googling and copy pasting code snippets into codebases and you were scamming your way into jobs by memorizing leetcode questions. You have been automated. Go do something else with your life.
• 🍃 ‘ (eBay): Idk what you’re on about. In July I did 8 technical screenings and they were all DS/Algo puzzles.
• ALXs84 (Intuit): I hear you! I struggle a lot with practical coding rounds too. More than anything, it’s sad that the expectation is still to have flawless code churned in 30 minutes. The questions are long, multi part and not very intuitive. Nobody cares for the approach, all they care is for the final result. How is this any different from leetcode then? Atleast we know what to expect!

Lots of money and no friends (Blind)

• railroad19 (Microsoft): Have kids and then you won’t have time to think about anything. Also you will make some friends.
• cola654t (Tesla): Join a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym (BJJ) you will find tons of great friends, nice hobby, learn self defense and get in shape.
• Romanpuss: I would start with finding groups/clubs or things you enjoy doing. Definitely keep you financial situation out of making friends (I.e: most people here are not trying to be your authentic friend) and just meet people naturally through common traits like a running club. Or if you’re a gamer there’s plenty of online communities. You will have to put yourself out there which will be uncomfortable, but how else do you expect to grow as a person?

New York files \$36 billion lawsuit against Kalshi, alleging it’s running an “illegal gambling operation” (r/technology)

• Mysterious-Oil-7094: I think there’s a fair chance it’s also money laundering as well. Not just illegal gambling.
• mostdope427: Flew into LaGuardia in January. Every screen in that airport had a kalshi ad on it at one point. Even the small screens by the gate that have information would show the logo in between other things.
• Glittering-Quail5848: Kalshi and Polymarket are GAMBLING websites. This is NOT commodities futures trading.

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ (r/technology)

• veracity8_: I think this story should highlight not that Hank Green is actually a hack. But instead it should highlight how easy it is to become reliant on AI chatbots if you aren’t really careful. And how being a smart and thoughtful person doesn’t make you automatically immune from the pressures to automate and outsource your work to AI.
• justbucoff: Everyone must interact with AI on a topic they’re an expert in. You’ll quite quickly see how confidently wrong the model sometimes is. It’s a great tool but can’t be relied on for everything.
• MattofCatbell: Hank is one of the smartest, influential educational content creators out there. If someone like him can fall into the trap of over-reliance and dependency on AI it really goes to showcase how insidious the technology can be.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Linked List Cycle II
• Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Two Pointers

Problem gist

A singly linked list may eventually point back to an earlier node instead of ending at None. The task is to return the exact node where that cycle begins, or None if the list has no cycle. The list must not be modified.